On a deeper Google investigation, I can't find the MaxCPUPerChild in the standard apache manual:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#maxfooperchild As oppose to: http://loki.homeunix.net/manual/mod/core.html#maxfooperchild And Google comes along with a lot of BSD mailing list with MaxFOOPerChild patch, so my impression is that this is a feature added to apache by BSD dev's? Again this is with default configuration... apache has worked before with default config... it is so weird...